Backend Developer

Best Buy; Pomona (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Best Buy in Pomona, CA is hiring for a junior backend/engineering role focused on Go and strategic planning. The position offers a base salary range of $75,000–$107,000 with team support and clear opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities include maintaining Ansible schemas, building accessible interfaces, and integrating services into the stack. You’ll work with Go APIs across Pomona teams and help optimize performance while documenting technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience aligning technical work with business goals.
• Ability to translate complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration across teams and disciplines.
• Familiarity with web back-end work and API design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain backward-compatible Ansible schemas to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Git.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Best Buy stack.
• Lead a Git feature through code freeze without destabilizing the product.
• Explain Strategic Planning tradeoffs to executives in clear terms.
• Design Go APIs used by Pomona, CA teams next year.
• Reduce latency on critical paths for better user experience.
• Document decisions, architecture, and APIs for the org.

Skills

Go language

AWS

Strategic Planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Selenium

Tools

Ansible

Git

Tailwind CSS

Selenium

Job description

Step into a junior engineering role where Go and Strategic Planning drive everything we build at Best Buy. Step into a Backend Developer position at Best Buy where $75,000 - $107,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep Ansible schemas backward-compatible so Best Buy never forces a breaking upgrade
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Git
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Best Buy stack
• Carry an entrepreneurial Git feature through code freeze without breaking Best Buy stability
• Walk technology stakeholders through Strategic Planning tradeoffs in language Best Buy execs grasp
• Design Go APIs other Pomona, CA teams will still thank you for next year
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Best Buy users feel every click
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org

What You'll Bring

• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• A writer's ear for tone in a high-stakes email
• Cross-functional ease, from Tailwind CSS engineers to Strategic Planning marketers
• Proven aptitude for AWS, ideally near Pomona, CA
• A point of view on Best Buy's space, sharpened by your own reading
• Experience translating Selenium complexity for a non-technical audience

Trusted by businesses nationwide, Best Buy operates a high-trust technology platform from its Pomona base. Around here, "I don't know yet" is a perfectly respectable sentence and often the start of something good.

Beyond the $75,000 - $107,000 base, Best Buy invests in your growth through paid certifications, conferences, and dedicated learning time.

This role is being actively staffed, with offers expected before the quarter closes.